Republicans on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees voted to hold AG Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for his refusal to release audio recordings of an interview with President Biden.
Attorney General Merrick Garland is on the clock. Two House committees have voted to hold Garland in contempt of Congress. House Republicans aren’t pleased with Garland failing to cough up an audiotape of the transcribed interview Special Counsel Robert Hur conducted with President Biden in the classified documents case. Garland released a transcript of the interview.
The transcript may be accurate. But you know what? The audio would tell us so much more,' said Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., at Tuesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing with Garland. Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C. told Garland the tape 'reveals things about capacity.' Garland won’t provide the tape. So the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees voted to hold the Attorney General in contempt of Congress. It’s not 100 percent certain the full House has the votes to hold Garland in contempt.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., says she’ll introduce a resolution of inherent contempt – ten days after the House votes on 'regular' contempt for Garland. The idea is that the Justice Department won’t prosecute Garland – so Congress will take matters into its own hands. Of course, it’s impossible to know if the House would ever command the requisite votes for an inherent contempt resolution – especially since 'customary' contempt is dicey, too.
Ideally, the attorney general would do the right thing and come present us representatives with information that we’ve been asking for. But that’s up to him to decide whether it’s above the law,' said Luna. Yours truly asked what was the plan since inherent contempt would represent such a significant escalation involving a potential standoff between two branches of government. 'I think it hasn’t been done in a while. So we’ll see how it unfolds,' said Luna.
But as far as one can tell, there isn’t a plan. Inherent contempt is inherently complicated. Inherently messy. And inherently tumultuous.
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